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(3) A Lecturer in Education
(4) Several part-time appointments to the Medical Staff.
The contribution of the Hong Kong Government to the University has recently been very generously increased to enable the University to do its work more efficiently, but there is no money available for a scholarship scheme, which will serve an imp-
erial purpose.
The holding of such examinations for University Scholarships in the various towns of China will direct attention to the British
System.
I was very much impressed last summer when I was up in Yunnanfu which is a considerable distance inland by the wave of excitement which spread over the town when the examination was held for the selection of 3 candidates for the University Course in Hong Kong. It was a magnificent advertisement for this country. The Consul and his secretary gave the test to over 80 candidates. Five schools at least claimed the honour of educating the successful scholars, who at once became the most important and the most envied of all students. If this could be repeated in the main centres of China we would soon achieve a higher cultural position in that country, and so realize the wishes expressed in the report of the Economic Mission to the Far East.
Annual Cost of 100 scholarships for students from the Interior to the University of Hong Kong
100 x 1400$
£7,000 to £8,000
10 scholarships for post graduate work in England £5.000. In order to induce students to come to England for post
graduate work, perhaps the Steamship Lines such as the Blue Funnel Line, which have been distinguished in the past for their encourage- ment of education in China by their generous gifts to the University of Hong Kong, and the P. and 0. might be induced to offer special passage facilities in the quiet season.
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